sheepshead

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

From sheep + -s- + head.

Reputation damaged at Sheepshead Bay. — The King in Yellow, Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Marie Elizabeth Mason wanted her son to have more of a future than to merely live another generation in the lower middle class doldrums of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
But what if, in reality, without the least desire to be offensive, that sheepshead had a notion in earnest that he was superior to me and could only look at me in a patronising way? — Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Archosargus probatocephalus

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